Monthly Meeting: Friday, September 30th

When:
    Friday, September 30, 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Where:
    UTS Broadway 

SLUG's monthly meeting featuring talks and SLUGlets. Meetings are open to the general public, and free of charge.

Room 2.4.10 (Building 2, Level 4, Room 10), at UTS Broadway (There is a map of UTS availible here).

General Talk: Matthew Palmer will be speaking on Your own personal Mainframe: Virtual Machines for fun and profit

The increasing availability of cheap, powerful hardware has made it
practical to consider running multiple, completely independent instances
of an Operating System on a single piece of hardware. Why would you want
to run multiple Operating Systems on one machine? For security,
stability, testing, ease of disaster recovery, or a whole range of other
reasons. There are many technologies available for virtualising
operating systems, especially Linux systems. This talk will compare and
contrast several of the technologies available, along with the pros and
cons of each. There will also be discussion of the use cases of
virtualisation, and live demonstrations of several of the technologies.

Special Interest Talk Newbie Orientation - Desktop Introduction

As a followup to the recent Software Freedom Day activities SLUG is
presenting a short introduction to the Linux Desktop and popular
applications for the home and office user.

As usual, SLUGlets will be running in another room during the 2nd half of 
the meeting for those who do not wish to attend the 2nd talk.

6:30pm: Doors Open
6:45pm: The Usual Suspects
    Q&A - Introduction to SLUG + "What has Linux done for/to me lately?" + SLUG News & Discussion 
7:00pm (approx): General Talk
    Matthew Palmer - Your own personal Mainframe: Virtual Machines for fun and profit 
8:00pm (approx): Break
    Refreshments in the foyer, for a small covering charge. 
8:20pm (approx): Split into two groups for:

        * Special Interest Talk: Newbie Orientation - Linux Desktop Introduction
        * SLUGlets: quick talks and discussion of Linux and Free Software.

9:30pm (approx) Dinner
    Dinner at Spice Boys (Indian), $20 per head. 

Cheers,
-Chris.

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